The Wizarding World of Harry Potter

Currently bewitching crowds at Orlando’s Universal Studios, the Wizarding World of Harry Potter is a Muggle’s magical fantasyland come to reality — in the corporate-America way, of course. The sprawling theme-park realization of J.K. Rowling’s wizard universe is impressive, and for $85 per adult (or $79 per child), the experience can be yours for a day. Featuring franchise favorites like the Hogwarts Express, Hogwarts itself and even the village of Hogsmeade, the park opened to the nonmagical public in June 2010 and has quickly become Potter mecca for adoring fans. One million Butterbeers later, Universal’s Wizarding World is basking in the limelight cast by the final film, waiting to console melancholy Muggles after the magic comes to an end.